Actions from tobezMovable Type Pro 4.382015-03-09T10:32:43Zhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=0&id=1117Posted Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe 2016 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2015:/users/tobez//742.67532015-03-09T10:32:43Z2015-03-09T10:35:40ZAlthough YAPC::Europe::2015 preparations are well underway in Granada, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2016 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn't exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Although YAPC::Europe::2015 preparations are well underway in Granada,
it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF)
to think about the location of the 2016 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn't
exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always excited
to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the community has to
offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be
found at here.
Proposals submitted to the venue committee will be added to this public
repository
(you may provide private information separately) to benefit future
organizers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

Friday, 15 May: Deadline for sending a letter of intent. This
letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and provides
contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two organizers.
This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to alert the
venue committee of your proposal.

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Posted YAPC::Europe 2014, day 2 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2014:/users/tobez//742.63352014-08-23T14:28:45Z2014-08-23T14:30:31Z(cross-posted from blog.tobez.org) Ignat Ignatov talked about physical formulas. When I was planning to attend this talk, I thought it is going to be some sort of symbolic formulas computation, possibly with an analysis of dimensions of the physical quantities....tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
(cross-posted from blog.tobez.org)

Ignat Ignatov talked about physical formulas.
When I was planning to attend this talk, I thought it is going to be some sort
of symbolic formulas computation, possibly with an analysis of dimensions
of the physical quantities.
However, despite my (a bit long in the tooth) background in physics, I did not
understand a word of it. Apparently, some sort of unification of physical
formulas, not entirely unlike the periodic table in chemistry, was presented, with
almost no comprehensible details and with scary words like co-homology and
algebraic topology. The fact that half of the slides were in Russian, while
irrelevant for me personally, probably did not help matters for the majority of
the people in the audience. I did not expect any questions at the end of the
talk, but there were at least two, so I was probably wrong about general
level of understanding in the audience.

Laurent Dami talked about SQL::Abstract::FromQuery.
He presented a query form of the Request Tracker and said that it is too complex -
a premise many would agree with. The conclusion was that some more natural
way to allow the user to specify complex queries is needed. Surprizingly,
the answer to that was to use a formal grammar and make the user adhere to it.
To me this sounds weird, but if one can find a non-empty set of users that
would tolerate this, it may just work.

The next talk was long, 50 minutes (as opposed to a somewhat standard for this conference 20 minutes)
Peter "ribasushi" Rabbitson presented a crash-course in SQL syntax and concepts.
It looked like a beginner-level introduction to SQL, but it became better and better as it progressed.
I even learned a thing or two myself. ribasushi has a way of explaining rather complicated
things concisely, understandably, and memorizably at the same time. Excellent talk.

Then there was a customary Subway sandwiches lunch.

Naim Shafiyev talked about network infrastructure automatization.
Since this is closely related to what I do at my day job, I paid considerable attention
to what he had to say. I did not hear anything new, but hopefuly the rest of the audience
found the talk more useful.
It did inspire me to submit a lightning talk though.

osfameron talked about immutable data structures
in Perl and how to clone them with modifications, while making sure that the code does not
look too ugly. Pretty standard stuff for functional languages, but pretty
unusual in the land of Perl. The presentation was lively, with a lot of funny
pictures and Donald duck examples.

The coffee break was followed by another session of lightning talks,
preceeded by a give-away of a number of free books for the first-time YAPC
attendees. Among the talks I remembered were SQLite virtual tables support
in Perl by Laurent Dami, web-based database table editor by Simun Kodzoman,
LeoNerd's presentation about XMPP replacement called Matrix,
a Turing-complete (even if obfuscated) templating system by Jean-Baptiste Mazon
of Sophia (sp!), and annoucements of Nordic Perl Workshop 2014 (Helsinki, November)
and Nordic Perl Workshop 2015 (Oslo, May).

Again, I did not go to the end-of-the-day keynote.

As a side note, the wireless seemed to be substantially more flaky than
yesterday, which has affected at least some lightning talk presenters.

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Posted YAPC::Europe 2014, day 1 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2014:/users/tobez//742.63342014-08-22T21:02:09Z2014-08-22T21:08:25Z(crossposted from blog.tobez.org) When I came to the venue 15 minutes before the official start of the registration, people at the registration desk were busily cutting sheets of paper into attendees' badges. Finding my badge turned out to be a...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
(crossposted from blog.tobez.org)

When I came to the venue 15 minutes before the official
start of the registration, people at the registration desk
were busily cutting sheets of paper into attendees' badges.
Finding my badge turned out to be a tad not trivial.

This conference is somewhat unusual not only because
it is conducted over the weekend instead of in the middle of the week,
but also because the keynotes for every day are pushed till the
end, even after the daily lightning talks session.

The welcome talk from Marian was about practical things
such as rooms locations, dinner, lunches, transportations
and so on. Then I went on stage to declare the location of
YAPC::Europe 2015 (which is Granada, Spain by the way).
After that Jose Luis Martinez from Barcelona.pm did a short
presentation of YAPC in Granada, and Diego Kuperman gave
a little present from Granada to Sofia.

Mihai Pop of Cluj.pm presented a talk called
"Perl Secret". It was basically a 20-minutes
version of BooK's lightning talk about Perl
secret operators, somewhat duluted by interspersing
references to minions. It was entertaining.

The great Mark Overmeer talked about translation with context.
He went beyond the usual example of multiple variants
of plural values in some languages, and talked about
solving localization problems related to gender and so on.
The module solving these problems is Log::Report::Translate::Context.
As always, great attention to details from Mark.

After lunch (sandwiches from Subway),
Alex Balhatchet of Nestoria presented hurdles of geocoding, with solutions.
I and my co-workers had encountered similar problems on a far
smaller scale, so I could understand the pains, and had a great
interest in hearing about the solutions.

Then I attended a very inspiring talk by Max Maischein from Frankfurt about
using Perl as a DNLA remote and as a
DNLA media server. I immediately felt the urge to play with the code he
published and try to adapt it to my own TV at home. There was even a live demo
of using DNLA to stream to Max's laptop a live stream of the talk provided by
the conference organizers. And it even worked, mostly.

Ervin Ruci talked more about geocoding —
this talk was partially touching the same problems Alex Balhatchet was talking
about. Unfortunately, it was substantially less detailed, so I was somewhat
underwhelmed by it. The presenter mentioned cool things like dealing with
fuzzyness of the input data using hidden Markov models, but did not expand on
them.

Luboŝ Kolouch from Czech Republic talked about automotive
logistics, and how open source solutions
work where proprietory solutions do not. The software needs to be reliable
enough to make sure that it takes only 1.5 hours between the part order and its
physical delivery to the factory.

After coffee break with more mingling
the inimitable R Geoffrey Avery choir-mastered an hour of lightning talks.
Most talks were somewhat "serious" today; I hope we see more "fun" ones in the next coming days.

Unfortunately, I missed the first keynote of the conference
from Curtis "Ovid" Poe, so cannot really say anything about it.

Finally, we went to Restaurant Lebed for the conference dinner.
The location is superb, there is a great view over a lake.
The food was great, too. We also got to enjoy some ethnic Bulgarian
music and dancing, not too much, and not too little.

Lots of cheers to Marian and the team of volunteers for
organizing what so far turns out to be a great conference.

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Posted Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2015 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2014:/users/tobez//742.57802014-03-11T10:51:31Z2014-03-11T10:54:05ZAlthough YAPC::Europe::2014 preparations are well underway in Sofia, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2015 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn’t exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Although YAPC::Europe::2014 preparations are well underway in Sofia,
it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF)
to think about the location of the 2015 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn’t
exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always excited
to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the community has to
offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be found
on http://www.yapceurope.org/organizers/index.html . Proposals
submitted to the venue committee will be added to this public repository
(you may provide private information separately) to benefit future
organizers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

Friday, 25 April: Deadline for sending a letter of intent.
This letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and
provides contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two
organizers. This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to
alert the venue committee of your proposal.

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Posted Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2014 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/tobez//742.44002013-03-08T11:16:20Z2013-03-08T11:17:45ZAlthough YAPC::Europe::2013 preparations are well underway in Kiev, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2014 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn't exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Although YAPC::Europe::2013 preparations are well underway in Kiev,
it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF)
to think about the location of the 2014 conference. YAPC::Europe
wouldn't exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always
excited to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the
community has to offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be
found at http://www.yapceurope.org/organizers/index.html .
Proposals submitted to the venue committee will be added to this public
repository (you may provide private information separately) to benefit
future organizers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

Saturday, 13 April: Deadline for sending a letter of intent. This
letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and provides
contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two organizers.
This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to alert the
venue committee of your proposal.

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Commented on Nordic Perl Workshop 2012 update in Claes Jakobssontag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/claes_jakobsson//869.3016#1358972012-04-04T11:46:14Ztobez
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Posted Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2013 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/tobez//742.29182012-03-09T09:55:18Z2012-03-09T09:55:51ZAlthough YAPC::Europe::2012 preparations are well underway in Frankfurt, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2013 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn't exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Although YAPC::Europe::2012 preparations are well underway in Frankfurt,
it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF)
to think about the location of the 2013 conference. YAPC::Europe
wouldn't exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always
excited to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the
community has to offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be
found at http://www.yapceurope.org/organizers/index.html .
Proposals submitted to the venue committee will be added to this public
repository (you may provide private information separately) to benefit
future organizers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

* Saturday, 7 April: Deadline for sending a letter of intent. This
letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and provides
contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two
organizers.
This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to alert the
venue committee of your proposal.
* Thursday, 5 July: Deadline for sending proposals to host YAPC::Europe
2013.

If you do not receive a confirmation for your letter of intent or proposal
within a couple of days, please personally contact a member of the venue
committee.

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Posted DateTime is annoying to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/tobez//742.27372012-01-27T14:11:14Z2012-01-27T14:14:22Ztobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Am I the only one who always
uses

my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(1327673580);

as opposed to the correct

my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => 1327673580);

??

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Posted Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2012 to tobeztag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/tobez//742.15232011-03-04T18:47:16Z2011-03-04T18:50:27ZAlthough YAPC::Europe::2011 preparations are well underway in Riga, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2012 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn’t exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are...tobezhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=742&id=1117
Although YAPC::Europe::2011 preparations are well underway in Riga,
it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF)
to think about the location of the 2012 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn’t
exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always excited
to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the community has to
offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be
found on the YAPC::Europe Foundation website. Proposals submitted
to the venue committee will be added to this public repository (you
may provide private information separately) to benefit future organizers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

Saturday, 30 April: Deadline for sending a letter of intent. This
letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and provides
contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two organizers.
This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to alert the
venue committee of your proposal.